Conclusion

Im really pleased with this finished product i feel it captures Half life and Shirow Masamune quite well. The main character looks very similar to a cross between a half life scientist and one of shirows strong female characters, the only thing i really dislike about her is the head.

The robot was heavily inspired by the half life Loader robot but kept the colour scheme of  Shirows work because Cyan is my favourite colour and because i wanted to refer back to my blue colour scheme. Midnight blue for the sky but lighter cyans and turquoise's to highlight the characters. The main inspiration from the loader were the Legs and the gun which was just an edit of the hydralics on the back of the loader. Most if not all of shirows mechs look partially 3d and this is what im most proud of because i feel i have encompassed this very well as i do believe the mech looks quite 3d and realistic.

I wanted the environment to feel slightly depressing, dark and moody. To acomplish this i chose a night time storm scene on the roof of a building overlooking the city, i feel this captures the effect i was going for quite nicely.

After trying to base my style on Shirows ive come to realise i dont like it. It may be due to all ive stared at for the past month is this art style and image but i will take away some things ive learnt from it especially the linework and the gradient system.

The Finished Product

I think im pretty much finished, ive touched up a few things, fiddled the lighting and added a rain effect to keep with the dark depressing dystopian feel shirow is well known for.

Envirobot

I wanted a quick test aswell of the environment with the robot just so i can see whats needed to be done. It looks pretty good though, im quite pleased.

Im most pleased with the lighting ive done using gradients and masks for shading.

Environment

Ive tried to create my own environment a cityscape at night, trying to mirror Shirows Ghost in the Shell enironment. Its a filtered picture with some added things like window lighting and sky gradients.

Nearly there

Im nearly there! woo. Robot is done, Scientist is done. Just a background to do and maybe see if i can do some nice lighting effects but other wise im happy.

Scientist

Im pretty much done with the character of the scientist im tempted to redo the face because i hate faces and i can never get them right they always look 'odd' But otherwise im pleased with how she came out.

Looking good

All the main parts of the robot are done, ive even added some lighting to it which will be usefull for when i go over the entire image with overlays and crosslighting, this way i know where the sources are coming from. Just the knees shoes and vent to do, then its just little details on it.